This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, approve visits, or pull official booking records. For those actions, use the official office that holds the record or controls the custody decision.
Official Richland Parish Contacts
Use the Richland Parish Sheriff's Office for local jail and public-records questions, and call the detention center for current custody, visitor, bond, or facility-specific questions. The sheriff's public-records page is available at richlandso.org/publicRecordsRequest, and the official inmate page is at richlandso.org/inmates, though the research source noted that it currently tells visitors to check back later.
Richland Parish Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Neal G. Harwell
708 Julia Street, Suite 113
Rayville, LA 71269
318-728-2071
Fax: 318-728-6454
Hours: Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. CST; Friday 7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. CST
Richland Parish Detention Center
474 Louisiana Highway 15
Rayville, LA 71269
318-248-3057
DPS&C also lists the male detention center at 456 Highway 15 with phone 318-248-3070. Confirm the correct entrance, mailing address, and procedure before travel, mail, bond, or records pickup.
For a custody or records task, start with the office below that matches the kind of information needed.
- For a person in the parish jail, use jail inmate records, the sheriff inmate page, Richland LAVNS, or the detention center phone line.
- For booking photos, review jail roster mugshots and use the sheriff public-records request route if no photo is posted online.
- For charges filed after booking, search court records after a jail arrest through the Richland Parish Clerk of Court and Clerk Connect.
- For facility-specific address, phone, visitation, or mail questions, use the Richland Parish detention facility pages listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced Louisiana prisoner, search Louisiana VINE/LAVNS, the state locator used by Louisiana DPS&C.
- For a federal or immigration detainee, use the BOP Inmate Locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.
Court records are handled separately from jail custody. Richland Parish Clerk of Court Melissa Morris has an official site at richlandparishclerk.com, and Clerk Connect lists Richland Parish Clerk Online Inquiry for participating records access.